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Jimm 9:28 Tue Mar 8
We're Not the North Bank, We Ain't the East Side...

Whilst teaching the 3 year old some West Ham chants during bathtime, I was suddenly taken back to those days on the South Bank.
I am sure it has been done a thousand times before on here, but with no search function and being lazy as, I have started a new thread.

So any good memories of the South Bank? I think my favourite was when we had just the small corner and watching some ginger red manc fella get rinsed for ninety mins for all sorts from not washing to being poor, then having to listen to us go mental when Brown scored the winner.
A close second was (i think) a cup game against Sunderland. Again only had the small corner and some lunatic just launched himself into the away fans, led out in cuffs eventually followed by one on a stretcher and another with the St John's chaps.

Not sure why, maybe it was because of the away fans being next door, but the North Bank never felt like home compared to the South Bank for me...

Far Cough 9:35 Tue Mar 8
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Never stood anywhere but the North Bank except for one time when the gates were locked and me and a mate climbed in to the South Bank

PwoperNaughtyButNot 9:42 Tue Mar 8
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I remember some japes with Gaza over on the West Bank

mallard 10:00 Tue Mar 8
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One distinct memory of that ‘Kenny Brown’ game was the paper aeroplanes constructed from the anti-bond leaflets and flown onto the pitch.

J.Riddle 12:44 Wed Mar 9
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Worst I remember that stand out in that order

Mancs 75,

https://youtu.be/EEJ6Xe7_LOs

Wall 78 police helicopter game

https://www.google.com/search?q=west+ham+v+millwall+1978&oq=west+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60l3j69i65j69i57j69i60j69i59.11745j1j7&client=ms-android-h3g-gb-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=wZlXKno6SDmlsM

Forest late 70s ended up on pitch, then jumped in Westside, bad move.

Newcastle also late 70s

jimmy iron 1:38 Wed Mar 9
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Yeah I was in that South Bank corner for the Kenny Brown game.. in my top 5 games at Upton Park I’d say.

cholo 8:41 Wed Mar 9
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Best memory of the South Bank was probably the 4-1 cup win v the scousers. We just had the east corner, turning that arrogant refrain "your so shit it's unbelievable" (which they'd been singing from the first minute) back on them when we went 4-1 up and being close enough to see their gutted faces was a thing of beauty.

Troy McClure 10:06 Wed Mar 9
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"Loyal supporter" as some urchin was frogmarched around the pitch

cholo 10:08 Wed Mar 9
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East Side, do your job, East Side East Side do your job...

wd40 10:42 Wed Mar 9
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A good education had by many.

Start in the Northbank as a young boy behind the goal take the big step and end up at the back singing songs - mentally you made it tell everyone.
Move on to the South Bank great character building
now your a man - a man's man.
Over 30 years move on to lean against a bar ( same one every match ) in the West Side .


Loved every second.

Cony Tottee 10:47 Wed Mar 9
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Being rammed in for the Cambridge game and then onto the pitch when Clive Allen scored. Great day.

only1billybonds 11:59 Wed Mar 9
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I was there for the Man Utd game in 75,it did get a bit hairy when the wall gave in.

But the MillWall game in 78 was the 'rawest' i ever saw or felt it,there was a genuine nastiness in the air that day that i never felt again.

boleyn8420 12:18 Wed Mar 9
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My favourite was the Eintracht Frankfurt semi final, pissing down all night, I found out later my Cortina was not water proof, good old Ford. But the atmosphere in the South Bank that night and the entire ground was just fantastic. I was right behind that Keith Robson goal, everyine remembers Brooking that night but for me it was Robsons goal I rememebr most, the groan as Robson miss-controlled the ball followed by the huge roar as it flew into the net. Wonderful night.

the coming of gary 12:33 Wed Mar 9
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.. I remember in 1981, Notts County were our big promotion rivals - the top two !

.. They are playing Dagenham next week
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13 Brentford Rd 12:44 Wed Mar 9
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My worst experience at football was in the South Bank, FA cup quater final v Villa 1980.

Almost crushed after the final whistle when I was stuck at the front rammed up against the wall backwards, couldn't move, my back was arched over the wall but my legs were stuck as thousands were trying to get on the pitch to celebrate.

Eventually freed my legs and fell backwards into the back of the goal only to then see some cunt copper charging at me with baton raised.

Was frightening as I was only 14 and though I was going to die, had the wall collapsed I would have, still not sure how it didn't.

violator 1:16 Wed Mar 9
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I think I was about 15 with my MATES and it was against Arsenal. The old bill had taped off some extra space between the away and and the iron railings. We were getting crushed against the fencing so they let us through the hatch and into the taped off area. Then we scored, of course we were jumping for joy and the old bill shoved us back through the hatch and back into the heaving masses.

Side of Ham 1:24 Wed Mar 9
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Brenty, no wonder you got into hairdressing....... :-)

flamengo 9:16 Wed Mar 9
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The peanut guy, shouting ‘Peanuts! Peanuts!’ And the SB responding with ‘we hate peanuts, and we hate peanuts, we hate peanuts and we hate peanuts etc’.

I stood there in the 80s in my teens. Much edgier than the north bank.

flamengo 9:17 Wed Mar 9
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The peanut guy, shouting ‘Peanuts! Peanuts!’ And the SB responding with ‘we hate peanuts, and we hate peanuts, we hate peanuts and we hate peanuts etc’.

I stood there in the 80s in my teens. Much edgier than the north bank.

Jaan Kenbrovin 9:50 Wed Mar 9
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I was in the south bank for the kenny brown game too.

LIVELY.

Wish there was footage of that corner when the goal went in.

madeeasy 12:51 Thu Mar 10
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wd40 10:42 Wed Mar 9

A perfect summary of a young lad going through the years.

The ones that were a little bit more sensible however went chicken run after a few games in the south bank and then stayed in the east upper.

I wish we had a proper stadium with character. I went Everton away this year, weirdly my first ever trip to goodison and it was lovely in every way it was shit, but felt great

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